36 Bible Verses about communion

A man should examine himself, and only when he has done so should he eat any of the bread or drink from the cup.

Hence anyone who eats the bread or drinks from the Lord's cup in a way that is unworthy of it will be guilty of profaning the body and the blood of the Lord.

For anyone who eats and drinks, eats and drinks a judgment upon himself if he does not recognize the body.

And he took a loaf of bread and thanked God, and broke it in pieces, and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body.

If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that your meetings may not bring down a judgment upon you. The details I will settle when I come.

As they were eating Jesus took a loaf and blessed it, and he broke it in pieces and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take this and eat it. It is my body!"

This is why many of you are sick and ill and a number have fallen asleep.

for each of you hurries to get his own supper and eat it, and one goes hungry while another gets drunk.

For until the Lord comes back, every time you eat this bread and drink from the cup, you proclaim his death.

Does not the consecrated cup which we bless mean that in drinking it we share in the blood of Christ? Does not the bread that we break mean that in eating it we share in the body of Christ?

Because there is one loaf, we, many as we are, are one body, for we all share the one loaf.

For I tell you, I will never eat one again until it reaches its fulfilment in the Kingdom of God."

and gave thanks for it and then broke it in pieces, saying, "This is my body which takes your place. Do this in memory of me."

The blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the participation in the holy Spirit be with you all.

After singing the hymn, they went out of the city and up the Mount of Olives.

Then their eyes were opened and they knew him, and he vanished from them.

And he took the wine-cup and gave thanks and gave it to them, saying,

Have you been supposing all along that it is before you I have been defending myself? It is in the sight of God and as a follower of Christ that I have been speaking. But it is all to do you good, dear friends,

Then Jesus said to them, "I tell you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no self-existent life.

For I am no peddler of God's message, like most men, but like a man of sincerity, commissioned by God and in his presence, in union with Christ I utter his message.

And they devoted themselves to the teaching and the society of the apostles, the breaking of bread, and prayer.

He took the cup, too, after supper, in the same way, saying, "This cup is the new agreement ratified by my blood. Whenever you drink it, do so in memory of me."

So, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot eat at the table of the Lord and at the table of demons.

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread that gives life. No one who comes to me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in me will ever be thirsty.

Have you no houses to eat and drink in? Or do you mean to show your contempt for the church of God, and to humiliate those who have none? What can I say to you? Can I approve of you? Not in this matter certainly.

And he said to them, "I have greatly desired to eat this Passover supper with you before I suffer.

If we say, "We have fellowship with him," and yet live in darkness, we are lying and not living the truth.

When one of you has a disagreement with his neighbor, does he dare to bring the matter before a heathen court, instead of laying it before his Christian brothers?

Whoever lives on my flesh and drinks my blood possesses eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the Last Day.

And I tell you I will never drink this product of the vine again till the day when I shall drink the new wine with you in my Father's kingdom!"

On the Lord's day I fell into a trance, and I heard a loud voice like a trumpet behind me